Charles Dickens: A Life

图书标准信息

• 作者 Claire Tomalin 著
• 出版社 Viking
• 出版时间 2012-06
• ISBN 9780141036939
• 定价 112.90元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 576页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

CharlesDickensistheacclaimeddefinitivebiographybybestsellingauthorClaireTomalin

CharlesDickenswasaphenomenon:ademoniclyhardworkingjournalist,thefatheroftenchildren,atirelesswalkerandtraveller,asupporterofliberalsocialcauses,butmostofallagreatnovelist-thecreatorofcharacterswholiveimmortallyintheEnglishimagination:theArtfulDodger,MrPickwick,Pip,DavidCopperfield,LittleNell,LadyDedlock,andmanymore.

Attheageoftwelvehewassenttoworkinablackingfactorybyhisaffectionatebutfecklessparents.Fromtheseunpromisingbeginnings,herosetoscaleallthesocialandliteraryheights,entirelythroughhisownefforts.Whenhedied,theworldmourned,andhewasburied-againsthiswishes-inWestminsterAbbey.Yetthebrillianceconcealedadividedcharacter:arepublican,hedislikedAmerica;sentimentalaboutthefamilyinhiswritings,hetookuppassionatelywithayoungactress;usuallygenerous,hecutoffhisimpecuniouschildren.

Fromtheaward-winningauthorofSamuelPepys,CharlesDickens:ALifepaintsanunforgettableportraitofDickens,capturingbrilliantlythecomplexcharacterofthisgreatgenius.IfyoulovedGreatExpectations,OliverTwistandAChristmasCarol,thisbookisinvaluablereading.

【作者简介】

ClaireTomalinwasborninLondonin1933.Shehasworkedinpublishingandjournalismallherlife,becomingliteraryeditorfirstoftheNewStatesmanandthenoftheSundayTimes,whichsheleftin1986.Sheistheauthorof,amongotherbooks:TheLifeandDeathofMaryWollstonecraft;ShelleyandHisWorldKatherineMansfield:ASecretLife;TheInvisibleWomanandtheextraordinarilysuccessfulbiographyofSamuelPepys.OtherbookswrittenforPenguinare:JaneAusten:ALifeandacollectionofmemoirsentitledSeveralStrangers.